Pauper's Pie

[Wookey]

In our family we've always called this Pauper's Pie, because you don't need any pastry for the outside, you just need the filling, so it's cheap!

It's such a common recipe idea that you've probably all made it anyway - but what would you call it in your family?

STUFF
4 or 5 large potatoes
2 large onions
pack of bacon
Pint of milk
Cheddar cheese
butter
plain flour
pickled red cabbage

WAYS
Alls you do is peel and thinly slice the potatoes and onions, and chop the bacon. Make a pint of cheese sauce.
Layer the potato and onion and then bacon in a buttered casserole dish, continuing up the dish till all the ingredients have been used.
Pour cheese sauce over, and cover with tin foil.
Cook on 200 for about an hour and a half, depending on your potato thickness. Then top with more cheddar and pop back in the oven for another 20 minutes to brown - very important, you must have a crispy brown crust on top, it's the best bit!!

SERVINGS
With pickled red cabbage, and brown bread and butter.

That's it.

I bet it's got a posh French name.

 

[Crispy]

Dunno. Sounds nice though

 

[selamlar]

Its kind of pommes dauphinouse with bacon, or pommes lyonnaise with onion.

 

[Andy the Don]

Sounds like that war time favourite Woolton pie. Named after the war time minister of food, Lord Woolton.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

My mother used to do this tea that she called "Cheese and Potato Pie" which was actually just potato, carrot and onion cooked in the pressure cooker with a packet cheese sauce mix poured over. It was surprisingly delicous despite sounding shite

Your Paupers Pie sounds really good! Especially with the red cabbage on the side.

 

[Wookey]

I always eat too much, because it's so lovely.

Pommes de Salford, we could call it, to be posh.

Here's Woolton pie, which I had never heard of - it could have pastry though, which is a bit posh for this recipe, or you can do a potato crust like Paupers.

Woolton Pie

Take 1Ib each of diced potatoes, cauliflower, swedes and carrots;

Three or Four spring onions;

One teaspoonful of vegetable extract and

One teaspoonful of oatmeal.

METHOD

Cook all together for ten minutes with just enough water to cover.

Stir occasionally to prevent the mixture from sticking.

Allow to cool; put into a pie dish, sprinkle with chopped parsley and cover with a crust of potatoes or wholemeal pastry.

Bake in a moderate oven until the pastry is nicely brown and serve hot with brown gravy.

 

[Part 2]

My mother used to do this tea that she called "Cheese and Potato Pie" which was actually just potato, carrot and onion cooked in the pressure cooker with a packet cheese sauce mix poured over. It was surprisingly delicous despite sounding shite

Your Paupers Pie sounds really good! Especially with the red cabbage on the side.

First time I went to stay in London I was 16. When I got to my mates his girlfriend made this, cept with red pepper instead of carrot. It was gorgeous (possibly influenced by a long trip starving on National Express). My Mum wasn't impressed when I got home and told her how nice it was

When I was little my Nana made bacon, onion and potato pie, possibly my favourite childhood meal.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Red pepper?!? We didn't have red peppers in Cleethorpes in the 1970s

Sounds good!

 

[Scarlette]

That sounds so good it made my stomach rumble!

In our family we've always called this Pauper's Pie, because you don't need any pastry for the outside, you just need the filling, so it's cheap!

It's such a common recipe idea that you've probably all made it anyway - but what would you call it in your family?

STUFF
4 or 5 large potatoes
2 large onions
pack of bacon
Pint of milk
Cheddar cheese
butter
plain flour
pickled red cabbage

WAYS
Alls you do is peel and thinly slice the potatoes and onions, and chop the bacon. Make a pint of cheese sauce.
Layer the potato and onion and then bacon in a buttered casserole dish, continuing up the dish till all the ingredients have been used.
Pour cheese sauce over, and cover with tin foil.
Cook on 200 for about an hour and a half, depending on your potato thickness. Then top with more cheddar and pop back in the oven for another 20 minutes to brown - very important, you must have a crispy brown crust on top, it's the best bit!!

SERVINGS
With pickled red cabbage, and brown bread and butter.

That's it.

I bet it's got a posh French name.

 

[Part 2]

Red pepper?!? We didn't have red peppers in Cleethorpes in the 1970s

Sounds good!

It was probably Xmas 86. As I remember the peppers weren't cooked just sliced in rings and arranged nicely on top. Those fancy London folk

 

[RubyToogood]

My mother used to do leek, carrot and potato pie at skint moments. I think that was basically leeks and carrots underneath, sliced potatoes on top with some cheese and breadcrumbs. I've never felt moved to ask her for the recipe.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Those fancy London folk

Indeed!!

It's funny looking back at things like that though. I mean peppers quite literally did not exist back then where I grew up.

 

[pogofish]

I bet it's got a posh French name.

Sounds a bit like the old farming-country staple that was called See Pie here. Which was pretty much whatever you had lying around, layered & topped with sliced tatties in a dish.

Anything but posh. Group along with Stovies, Skirlie & Skink Soup, for a cheap filling meal.

 

[Wookey]

Sounds a bit like the old farming-country staple that was called See Pie here. Which was pretty much whatever you had lying around, layered & topped with sliced tatties in a dish.

Anything but posh. Group along with Stovies, Skirlie & Skink Soup, for a cheap filling meal.

Well, I had a ginormous bowl last night, but it needed more cheese sauce. I would make double next time, as it's supposed to be sloppy underneath the crust.

I told me mum I was having a Pauper's, and now she's having it tonight. Pauper's spreads like that, y'see.

The red cabbage makes it.

All in all, enough to feed four cost me about 4 quids.

 

[razzie]

well thank you very much Wookey! Made it last night and it was blooming gorgeous...Such a great recipe cause you can put in anything you like and its proper comfort food.Gonna try it with chicken and spinach next time...

 

[Gavin Bl]

there's a welsh version, finely slicely potatoes and onions or spring onions in an oven-proof dish, drop of water at the bottom some butter and seasoning. A layer of bacon over the top. Cover with foil and bake till pots are cooked - they often soften up after being taken from the oven. Can't remember the name, it just welsh roast potatoes - Tatws Crwyn, maybe. The bacon flavour permeates the spuds, really nice.

 

[Wookey]

well thank you very much Wookey! Made it last night and it was blooming gorgeous...Such a great recipe cause you can put in anything you like and its proper comfort food.Gonna try it with chicken and spinach next time...

Yay! It spreads!!

 

[Wookey]

there's a welsh version, finely slicely potatoes and onions or spring onions in an oven-proof dish, drop of water at the bottom some butter and seasoning. A layer of bacon over the top. Cover with foil and bake till pots are cooked - they often soften up after being taken from the oven. Can't remember the name, it just welsh roast potatoes - Tatws Crwyn, maybe. The bacon flavour permeates the spuds, really nice.

That sounds very similar. Tatws Crwyn - what does the Crwyn bit mean?

ETA: Ahhh, roast?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Woolton Pie.......Three or Four spring onions

The reason being that you couldn't get onions, and on the rare occasions you could they were almost as expensive as caviare...well I exaggerate, but onions were like gold dust in the war....I found this out from this wonderful book

www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/books/few_eggs_and_no_oranges.htm

 

[Gavin Bl]

That sounds very similar. Tatws Crwyn - what does the Crwyn bit mean?

ETA: Ahhh, roast?

Actually, it might be Tatws Rhost - I think any non-welsh speaker could take a stab at translating that...